QPR U23 (3) – Barnsley U23 (2)

Team: Lumley, Kakay, Hamalainen, Goss, Paul, Phillips, Petrasso, Manning, Darbyshire, Grego-Cox, Rowe Sub Not Used: Herdman In blazing sunshine, Reece Grego-Cox did really well to set up our first goal after 7 minutes. He chased a ball down the left-wing almost to the bye-line that would have been a lost cause for many. After taking Continue reading


QPR (2) – Hull City (1) – “James Perch did his Knee & I wanted him to come off & he wouldn’t come off”

Team: Smithies, Bidwell, Baptiste (Wszolek), Onuoha, Perch, Freeman, Luongo, Scowen, LuaLua (Smith), Mackie (Sylla), Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Furlong, Manning, Borysiuk Attendance: 12,609 (including 829 Hull fans) Having made hard work of it, I thought we got what we fully deserved. Missed chances in the first-half almost cost us the game. We need a Continue reading


Sheffield Wednesday (1) – QPR (1) – R’s Produce Impressive Performance

Sheffield Wednesday (1) – QPR (1) – R’s Produce Impressive Performance Team: Smithies, Bidwell, Onuoha, Lynch, Perch, Scowen, Luongo, Freeman (Manning), Wszolek (Furlong), Mackie (LuaLua), Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Baptiste, Borysiuk, Smith Attendance: 25,537 (including 712 R’s fans) Make no mistake this was an excellent performance by the R’s. We played good quality football Continue reading


QPR U23 (4) – Hull City U23 (1)

U23 Professional Development League Team: Lumley, Kakay, Owens, Baptiste, Hamalainen, Paul, Petrasso, Goss, Oteh, Eze, Chair Subs: Herdman, Rowe, Phillips, Grego-Cox The R’s got off to a productive start and within a couple of minutes, captain for the day, Eberechi Eze made his way through midfield and set-up Ilias Chair who saw his low shot Continue reading


QPR (2) – Reading (0): ‘A Perfect Performance. A Perfect Start’

Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Lynch, Bidwell (Robinson), Wszolek, Scowen, Luongo, Freeman, Mackie (Ngbakoto), Washington (Sylla) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Furlong, Borysiuk, Smith Attendance: 14,460 (including 2,208 away fans) Reading were poor because we made them look poor. We pressed them from the 18-yard box as the keeper was always playing the ball short. The No.24, Continue reading


Bovingdon (0) – QPR U23 (6)

Team: Dieng (Bowman), Kioso, Genovesi (Ribiero), Bettache (Mesais), Kaiser, Noel-McLeod, Corner (Bensal-McNulty), Akinola (Miller), Cardosa (Dauti), Emmanuel-Thomas (Corner), Fanimo (Francis-Adeyinka) I was surprised to see that three games were scheduled for last Saturday. The first team were involved at Peterborough and a U23’s squad were playing Wycombe Wanderers behind closed doors at Harlington. Bovingdon provided Continue reading


Norwich City (4) – QPR (0) – “It could have been a lot worse if I’m being honest”

Team: Smithies, Robinson (Bowler), Onuoha, Lynch, Perch, Wszolek, Doughty, Manning, Luongo, Washington (Grego-Cox), Smith (Freeman) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Furlong, Goss, Petrasso Attendance: 27,005 (including 1,974 R’s fans) Wes Hoolahan starred to help Norwich City end their Championship season with a thumping victory over QPR. Hoolahan found the bottom corner from the edge of the Continue reading


QPR U23 (1) – Orlando Pirates (2)

Team: Herdman, trialist, Williams, Owens, Finney, trialist, trialist, Rowe, Emmanuel-Thomas, Chair, Grego-Cox Subs Used: Hudnott, Darbyshire, Oteh, Fox, Mesias, Disubi, Bansal-McNulty, Akinola, Dauti This interesting U23’s friendly was played last Friday at the Heston training ground. The Orlando Pirates were formed in 1937 and are based in Johannesburg. There were no team sheets issued, but Continue reading